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LinkedIn is hoping to let its users tap into their professional network across the Web. On Monday, LinkedIn will make its technology available to software developers who want to use it in their own sites and applications. By incorporating information about someone’s professional profile and connections,...

Great CIOs are business leaders and see business results. The time was that being a great CIO involved being a great technologist. The relationship between leadership and mastery of a subject matter is strong, particularly in technical disciplines. After all how can a...

Suddenly some explosively positive and futuristic pragmatic policies about the Internet and global e-commerce are creating amazing galaxies of business naming. With already 1.7 billion online users and 1 billion more on its way the new business naming capabilities befitting advance and intricate platforms of...

Can an employer read a worker's email? Businesses certainly have the technical capability to look at the emails sent from their computers, whether it's transmitted through a company or a private email account. The question really is whether an employee can have any expectation of privacy? It...

MADISON - DNASTAR, a leading bioinformatics software company, and Wageningen University and Research centre in Wageningen, the Netherlands announced today the signing of a broad site license agreement for the use of Lasergene® sequence analysis software developed by DNASTAR. Under the terms of the site license,...

Now that we’ve all actually seen Chrome OS, the immediate reaction that most are jumping to is that it won’t be killing Windows anytime soon. Obviously. But that doesn’t mean it won’t hurt Microsoft, and apply long-term pressure to the dominant OS. In fact, Google’s...

The NY Times reported today on how the concept of shared; low cost supercomputers are being paired with high performance computers from companies with strong Wisconsin Roots including as Cray and Silicon Graphics. The story revealed how users and developers of supercomputer users are using...

What's the future of ERP? What kind of a silly question is that, you may be asking yourself. First off, predicting the future—especially in the technology world—is a fool's errand, best handled by Ouija Boards and IT analysts' dartboards. And isn't the future of ERP...

A new survey finds Wisconsinites pay more for health insurance than the rest of the country and the cost is rising at a faster rate. The consulting firm Mercer finds employers and their workers in Wisconsin paid an average of nearly $11,000 per employee for health...